More Arriva London cascades?

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RE: More Arriva London cascades?

(16/03/2014 23:18)Busser Wrote:  Well its annoying that they brought some of the VLW's to the north west to mostly use on school services rather than to help capacity on some of the busiest non school routes. Also i know that passenger usage won't simply go down as a lot of people have no alternative but you could at least make a better experience for them also there would be less complaints. Stagecoach seems to have the best record out of the big 3 when it comes down to satisfied customers. And i still think the DLA's should be school buses.

The reason they have been brought up here is to replace DLA's on school routes. Both TfGM and Merseytravel have a 15 year age limit their contracts including school services.

The other problem is that all buses are now becoming DDA compliant by 2017, and the DLA's have electric ramps from their london days, of which many quite simply don't work. Therefore If a wheelchair user wanted to get to say Carmel College on the 743, they wouldn't be able too. As much as I am a fan of DLA's and their err... "character", they aren't DDA compliant.

If you've read the Arriva facebook page, you'll see that people complain about literally anything such as a bus being 2 minutes late, to buses not stopping when they don't put their hand out, even if you did have a nice leather coach seated vehicle, someone would complain they slide off the seats or don't like the shade of leather.